Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ensconced in the high-backed chair on the dais, blinking down on excited Senators, Barkley remarked: "I feel like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he felt. He said if it weren't for the honor of the thing, he'd just as soon walk." He applied himself then to the South's ingenious entanglement, which was hard going even for sea lawyers...
Scrambling wildly for safety, Administration leaders threw up one compromise after another. As the bill reached the House floor, Housing Expediter Tighe Woods tactfully let it be known that he was planning to take controls off rents in more than 100 rural and small-town areas. Then the Administration accepted an amendment guaranteeing "reasonable" returns to landlords...
...State law which concerns this problem was written in 1928 and amended in 1947 to read in part: "No rule, regulation, order, ordinance, or by-law of a city or town hereafter made or promulgated relative to or in connection with . . . signs, lights, markings, signal systems or similar devices or parking meters on any was within its control, shall take effect until approved in writing by the Department of Public Works or be effective after said approval is revoked." The 1947 amendment merely placed "parking meters" after "similar devices...
...textile empire that last year grossed $288 million (and netted $31.2 million). Born & bred at Harvard (where his father taught mathematics), Love came out of World War I a 23-year-old major. He took his $3,000 in savings to Gastonia, N.C., his father's home town, and got a $120-a-month job in a cotton mill. After talking local citizens into adding $80,000 of their own money to his, he bought the mill. During a real-estate boom, Love sold the mill's land and buildings at a small profit, then moved its machinery...
Arrowsmith Adverse. Aaron's father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, and smuggled runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...